patchy?
which don't you like?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 22:18, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Stardust
is good, but the narrative is a bit weak. Neverwhere I love, american Gods is good, I like Bad Omens, but he can only take credit for half of that.... what else is there?
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 22:23, Reply)

i've not read stardust
there's Anansi Boys (comes after American Gods) and his short stories collections Smoke and Mirrors (which I have read and love) and Fragile Things, which I haven't

Also was the writer on Mirrormask
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 22:26, Reply)

ahh, yes Anansi Boys I quite liked
not read the short stories, also Coraline and The Day I swapped my dad for 2 gold fish, both good kids books. I'm not saying he's bad, but, I still prefer the graphic novels.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 22:30, Reply)

I think it's the arrangement of words that I want to be able to emulate
Iain Banks, I like the wit and the plots more

Mervyn Peake is just good at all these things
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 22:31, Reply)

I'll give you that.
I'd like to be a storyteller like Gaiman, but i'd like to write novels like Banks. Peake I've never read, was he Titus Groan or some such?
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 22:34, Reply)

yeah
titus groan, gormanghast, titus alone. The first two are heavy on words, but so very worth it. The 3rd one just kind of spirals of in some odd direction as he went mad.

I have another one by him, too, My Pye. Pretty good, but the Gormanghast trilogy is a masterpiece
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 22:37, Reply)

I'll give it a try
but a git I went to school with really liked them and he was a git, so it's hard to disassociate. I'm sure they're good though.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 22:39, Reply)